‘THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY…..’
By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963.

They could not even let on not to know the road they took , for the British spared them no humiliation on that : ‘Steps shall be taken , ‘ the Treaty declared, ‘for summoning a meeting of members of parliament elected for the constituencies of Southern Ireland since the passing of the Government of Ireland Act 1920…….this instrument (the Treaty) shall be submitted….to a meeting….of members elected to sit in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland…’

It was all so unlike them , so unworthy of them, that one felt ashamed for them , and because of them , for all of us : they , justifying themselves to themselves by their motives , while embarrassed and humiliated by the reality , were equally bad tempered. In face of the news from outside, and in response to questions and discussions on the rapidly worsening political and military situation , Liam Mellows wrote his ‘Notes From Mountjoy Jail’ which fell into the hands of the Treatyite forces and was published under scare , and of course Communist, headlines. The document was addressed to the leaders of the Republican Army on a plan to rally the people for the better defence of the Republic.

It advocated , as a first step, that a provisional government be set up, and that the Democratic Programme adopted by Dáil Éireann in January 1919 be put into effect : estates and ranches in the hands of those who stood for the British connection to be seized and distributed , and Mellows reminded the leaders on the outside that a plan towards this end had already been drawn up by the IRA Executive - it was written by Paddy Ruttledge , a member of the IRA Executive , later Minister for Justice in De Valera’s government , and I very much doubt whether a copy of it is still in existence……
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THE PETER BERRY PAPERS……. The Top Secret Memoirs of Ireland’s Most Powerful Civil Servant : Dirty Tricks, Election ‘69/ Spying on a Unionist Politician/ Keeping the (State) Taoiseach informed/ The Garda Fallon Murder/ Advice to Jack Lynch- ‘Fire the pair of them…’/ Vivion De Valera’s advice to O’Malley/ Rumours of a Coup D’Etat/ The Internment Plot, November 1970/ Secret Meeting with William Craig.
From ‘MAGILL’ magazine , June 1980.

” While the Taoiseach , in his winding-up speech on May 9th , made reference to me as having ‘acted most efficiently and conscientiously’ , he made no reference to the circumstances in which I was directed to report to him ; furthermore , he made no effort to dispel the nonsense that I was employing “a super-Special Branch” to spy on Ministers.

Although he had full knowledge of the Ministerial appointment of a consultative assistant to the ‘S Branch’ Head in 1966 , and in continuing years , he made an evasion of personal responsibility ; ” I want to say before I proceed that I did not at any time have Ministers’ homes watched during this investigation…..there was no attempt whatever at imposing Gestapo methods on any member of the Government , certainly none that I directed and none so far as I could ascertain.”

MAY 14 , 1970 :
” The Taoiseach answered questions in relation to security measures : Deputy O’ Leary asked - ‘Is it a fact that a member of the Cabinet was aware of the complicity of other members of the Cabinet some months before the Taoiseach ?’ , to which the Taoiseach replied : ‘ I do not believe that the Ministers to whom the Secret Service would report would have possession of such information months before….’ “
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INKGATE - PRINTING LEINSTER HOUSE-STYLE : A LICENCE TO MAKE MONEY……!

Apologises for the later-than-usual posting time , but our ‘legal department’ got extra nervous on discovering that a high-powered PSF* team ( * ‘P’ for ‘Paper’ Sinn Féin , as they never refuse ink…) are searching the blogosphere with a view to taking legal action later on for any ‘untoward comment’ in relation to Aengus : indeed , that team of sleuths are believed to be printing that material out now as you read this….

Aengus Ó Snodaigh , a Provisional Sinn Féin member of Leinster House, Elvis impersonator* and mountain climber* (!) (*see pics, below…) has been discovered to have been in receipt of over €55,000 worth of printer cartridges - 434 units in total at a cost of €130 per unit , an average of 3 cartridges a day ; more than enough , overall , to print more than 3 million letters - in the last two years : indeed, in one year, when his ‘job’ was not-unusually only ‘open for business’ for 96 days in a twelve month period , the bould Aengus took 219 printer cartridges !

And , as if abusing taxpayers money for the above wasn’t bad enough , the same man , who is paid a salary from the taxpayer of over €1930 a week (not including ‘legitimate expenses’!) also removed enough quantities of copy paper (A4 etc) to use with the cartridges , adding tens of thousands of Euro onto the total value of the ‘haul’: interviewed on ‘Newstalk 106′ radio yesterday , Aengus defended his actions , stating that all his leaflets and printed material was in full colour , with pictures , solely for the benefit of his constituents , to whom he and his team delivered same to “once or twice a month , maybe more..” - the Fianna Fáil leader , Micheal Martin , asked , on that same radio station : “What is it with ex-revolutionaries in this country that they seem to have a love affair with printing machines ?” !

It then transpired that the Provisional Sinn Féin ‘Press Office’ in Leinster House ‘used’ 86 ink cartridges in one year , compared with all the other party ‘Press Offices’ combined which, between them , used a total of 54 cartridges. It should be noted that , at the time of writing this blog post , the last ‘official’ press release from Aengus to his constituents was one year and twenty days ago…..

….anyway : about those pics -

- this , believe it or not , is Aengus ‘Elvis’ Ó Snodaigh , captured a few years ago at a charity fund-raising night. Bet he’s all shook up now, uh huh huh…..

….and this is the same ‘public representative’ , presenting coloured leaflets to a fellow mountain climber. Is it all down hill from now , one wonders…..!

Finally : it looks like we may be returning to this subject , as it now transpires that Aengus’s leader in Leinster House , Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead , Gerry Adams , is the second-highest user of ink cartridges in Leinster House…..
…..and please note : no ink cartridges were used , abused or mis-used in the production of this Post !
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

TONERGATE / INKGATE….

…TO THIS BLOG :

Two of our many readers in the Ballyfermot area of Dublin , where Provisional Sinn Féin’s Aengus ‘CartridgeWorld’ Ó Snodaigh rules the roost , have approached me with undeniable pictorial proof of , to say the least , shady dealings involving Mr Ó Snodaigh on stage and also showing him , again in disguise , handing over printed material on a mountain top to a woman.
We are 100% positive that the post re same which we will publish tomorrow evening - no sooner than that , as our legal department has not yet finished treble-checking it - will put a whole new slant on ‘Inkgate’……

…..and , in an unusual move , I will be present and available for interviews at the Spire , in O’Connell Street , Dublin , tomorrow (Wednesday 29th February 2012) at 11.30am , for a while , before I move off to ’set up camp’ outside the gates of Leinster House in Kildare Street. In between answering questions in relation to our intended ‘InkGate’ post I will be taking part in this protest - I will be taking questions both before and after the protest , but not during it (as I will be shouting obscenities at the feckers inside !) , so be first in the queue if you want to get your hands dirty re ‘TonerGate’ , ‘cause you know what they say about the early bird : it gets a pain in its belly from all the worms…. !
But seriously - see you tomorrow , in Dublin City Centre , and then here , on this blog , tomorrow evening , for ‘CartridgeGate : Revelations’……
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

“AND THE LOSER IS……REALITY !!

“Our little film was inspired by the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 30 years of war, sat down, negotiated a peace and proved to the world that the Irish are great talkers. I want to dedicate this to them.This is about reconciliation in Northern Ireland, it is really close to my heart….” - the words of Terry George.

Provisional Sinn Féin ‘Cultural Minister’ for what she calls “Northern Ireland” ,
Carál Ní Chuilín (seen here ,looking for direction….) ,said the award was “a fantastic achievement by the Northern Ireland film industry - It is wonderful that local talent and hard work is being recognised on the global stage….”

Two bad scripts - and two lost opportunities : Belfast-born Terry George would be well aware that , truth be told , “Northern Ireland” is not ‘about’ “Protestant and Catholic” - it is ‘about’ the on-going British political and military interference in Irish affairs. Nor has it been “30 years of war….” , as that interference has been going on here for the last 843 years and is , unfortunately, not over yet. The “peace” that was “negotiated” is a false dawn , which could have been had here at any time over the last 843 years - all that was required was that the majority of those opposed to British interference should settle for less ie that they would take salaried positions from the British to administer the Occupied Six Counties on behalf of Westminister and , in return , the British would promote them world-wide as ‘Statesmen/women’ and allow them to claim that such participation was ‘a stepping-stone to Irish Freedom’. The “reconciliation” that Terry George spoke about will only materialise when the British withdraw , politically and militarily , from Ireland - North , South , East and West.

Provisional Sinn Féin member and ‘Stormont Minister’ , Carál Ní Chuilín , found herself on a “global stage” , as an indirect result of the film in question, but - as expected , due to the fact that the lady herself , and her Party, are now Westminister-salaried ‘estate managers’ - ‘fluffed’ her lines : this is a golden opportunity for her to highlight the on-going injustice of the on-going British political and military claim of jurisdiction over part of Ireland but , as Irish Republicans know , there is no profit in that , nor is there a career to be had, so she stuck to her Westminster-supplied and PSF-leadership approved script of “…fantastic achievement….wonderful….local talent…”.
Shame on both of them , and on their respective ‘camps’ : lost opportunities in front of a world-wide audience.
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

RSF ON THE ANTI-HOUSEHOLD TAX PROTEST, CLONDALKIN , DUBLIN , SATURDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2012….

…a protest against the recently-implemented State Household Tax was held today (Saturday 25th February 2012) in Clondalkin Village , Dublin : members of the local Máire Drumm/Kevin Barry Cumann of Republican Sinn Féin took part in this protest and maintained their presence outside the Offices of South Dublin County Council for the full ninty minutes that the protest lasted for.

Hundreds of leaflets were distributed in the area , and a very welcome response was received by the protesters from shoppers going in to the near-by Mill Shopping Centre and from the drivers and passengers of the hundreds of cars that slowed down as they passed the protest .

As usual , the Clondalkin-based ‘Mr T’ was present with his ‘Browning’ camera (!) , as was ‘Baby t’ and , between them , they took a sh…..utter load of pics which , when they eventually tire of pressing leaflets in through the open windows of passing cars (!) , they will post on this ‘Facebook’ page !
Congrats to all those who took part in this protest , and to the many hundreds of passing supporters who voiced their agreement with the objectives on those on the protest - ‘DON’T REGISTER FOR THE HOUSEHOLD TAX , AND DON’T PAY IT !’
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

‘THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY…..’
By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963.

For a little while on the morning of the attack on IRA Headquarters , Four Courts , Dublin , 28th June 1922 , Liam Mellows and I shared vigil at one of the barricaded upper windows , and watched the city bestir itself , within our arc of vision, to the noise of rifle fire and light artillery fire. We thought our thoughts. Two men , obviously workmen making their way along the quays to their jobs, started us speculating on what role the trade unions would have been guided into were James Connolly alive and the Republic under attack.

It was the first time I heard Mellows on the play of social forces in the crisis of the Treaty ; I was present at the Dáil Éireann session when he made his speech against the Treaty but , while what he said then impressed me greatly , it gave no indication of the pattern of ideas he uncovered now.

The Four Courts fell and its garrison became prisoners , and with it members of the IRA Executive - Rory O’ Connor , Liam Mellows , Joe McKelvey and Peadar O’ Donnell. In the angry mood of the thronged cells in Mountjoy Jail , the prisoners instinctively turned to Mellows as the one among us who must, somehow , be able to explain how the Republican Army could permit itself to be overrun by much weaker military forces and why certain men of courage , hitherto devoted to independence , should choose to enter on a road of struggle to overthrow the Republic and raise on its ruins a parliament which rested on the penal British Government of Ireland Act 1920…….
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THE PETER BERRY PAPERS……. The Top Secret Memoirs of Ireland’s Most Powerful Civil Servant : Dirty Tricks, Election ‘69/ Spying on a Unionist Politician/ Keeping the (State) Taoiseach informed/ The Garda Fallon Murder/ Advice to Jack Lynch- ‘Fire the pair of them…’/ Vivion De Valera’s advice to O’Malley/ Rumours of a Coup D’Etat/ The Internment Plot, November 1970/ Secret Meeting with William Craig.
From ‘MAGILL’ magazine , June 1980.

” In the Dail debate on May 8th and 9th , the Taoiseach gave an unqualified assurance that no postal warrant in respect of the telephone or correspondence of any member of government or, indeed , for any member of the Dail or Seanad had been signed by the Minister for Justice. The Taoiseach was right , of course, in what he said but it would not have been so if I had had my way. I saw no reason, then or at any other time, why there should be exceptions from the processes of criminal investigation.”

MAY 8TH AND 9TH 1970 :
” The marathon two-day Dail debate on the circumstances of the dismissal of Ministers made unpleasant reading for me as I was mentioned by name and activities were ascribed to me which were without foundation. It was stated that I was working on a ‘letter de cachet’ basis to the Taoiseach : Deputy Kevin Boland’s phraseology (Volume 246 , Number 7 , Cols. 744-48) and that I was employing a ’super-Special Branch’ for surveillance of Ministers. It was complete nonsense. I was obliged to report direct to the Taoiseach in pursuance of directions from my Minister , Mr. O’ Morain, who was to say so in Court in September 1970 and to say so with greater emphasis in his correspondence with and in his testimony before the Committee of Public Accounts - see Mr. O’ Morain’s letter dated 10th June 1961 on page 304 of CPA Report : “Any knowledge that I had of these events was fully reported both by me and , on my express instructions, by Mr Peter Berry ….to the Taoiseach at all material times…..”
(MORE LATER).

BRIAN MÓR Ó BAOIGHILL RIP : Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dilis…..

I had the pleasure of meeting Brian Mór a number of times over the years , and each time we parted company we both knew it was only temporary due to the fact that we shared the same Irish Republican values and realised that , as comrades, we were destined to meet again : and we are , but, now , it won’t be in this life.

Brian Mór’s Christmas Greetings to Irish POW’s , Times Square , New York , 1983.

‘In June of last year he wrote an open letter to the Lord Mayor of Belfast to protest at one of his poster artworks, commemorating Theobald Wolfe Tone and the 1798 Rising, being hung in Belfast City hall. Brian saw this as merely an attempt to distract from the fact that Belfast and the rest of the Six Counties were still occupied by British forces. In his own inimitable style Brian finished his letter by declaring: “When the Belfast City Hall is located in a united Ireland, not the United Kingdom, I would be honored to see my artwork displayed. Until then, I request that it be taken down. Moving the picture of the Queen of England from one wall to another does not in any way make Belfast part of a United Ireland. I object to my artwork being used to pretend otherwise….” ‘
(More acknowledgments and tributes here and here.)

There is a lot more I could say about Brian , but this is not the most suitable venue in which to do so : I will close , for now , with the words of Oscar Wilde - “Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
Slán anois , A Chara.

‘CAPTAIN MAC’S ‘ - A CLASS ACT…..

” I’m a Class Act. And you’re paying for it….”

Beverley Cooper-Flynn , daughter of ‘P’ Flynn (from the ‘ThreeHouse-Flynn’ Clan) might very well have had her glittering political career whipped away from her by cruel circumstances (!) but at least she won’t go hungry : she owns a chipper in Marbella , which enables her to top-up her tan whilst checking the accounts of her customers , some of whom may not realise that , on ‘leaving’ Leinster House , she received a few bob to help her on her way : a lump-sum payment of €186,000 , hardly enough, these days, to put fish and chips on the table. But not to worry : ‘Class Act’ Bev also receives a weekly State pension , courtesy of her services to those that had elected her to Leinster House, of €697 a week , every week , for the rest of her life. And no better girl to tell ya if it’s index-linked or not…..
So - when you are next in Marbella on holiday (!) , you know where not to go if you’re hungry , and where to go if you’re angry…..
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

Jim McVeigh , PSF poacher turned gamekeeper…..

“Talk of Socialism, collectivism etc is all nonsense, people running around waving red flags is an embarrassment….”
- the words of Provisional Sinn Féin leader , head of the Provisional Sinn Féin Trade Union Department and leader of Belfast City Council, Jim McVeigh ,as spoken in the Waterfront Conference Centre , Belfast, on Saturday 11th February 2012.
It seems that these political misfits are not just content to welcome a British ‘queen’ to Irish soil , but also view their stated pro-working/unemployed-class policies as yet another ‘chip’ to be traded and/or ditched if doing so will integrate them further with the ‘establishment’. Then there’s this -

- a photograph taken earlier this month (Friday 10th February 2012) of the Provisional Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast , Niall Ó Donnghaile, (right) having a nice cup of Earl Grey with the British Secretary of State , the ‘Right Honourable’ Owen Paterson MP , in the ‘Parlour’ of Belfast City Hall. Niall , the ‘Pet Rebel’ , then took his new friend , Owen , on a tour of the Big House.

And , as with other members of that ‘establishment’ , he and his party continue , for now, to benefit from ’selling’ something that they don’t possess and, more than likely , never possessed in the first place - political integrity. Until such time as the ‘buyers’ cop-on , these snakeoil salespeople will continue to prosper.
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

‘THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY…..’
By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963.

It was a near thing that the agitation did not burn itself out within the few townlands committed to it before other districts became involved. It was not easy , so late in the day as 1926, to convince even neighbour districts that this issue was vitally related to the independence struggle, since nobody raised it when the War of Independence was at its height.

The current annuity by itself , unrelated to a national issue, was not a matter of any great concern, and so for a time a few townlands stood alone. There is little left today of many of the townlands in which this agitation was cradled - they were a remnant of the Irish of history with little or no place in Irish life : its economy bypassed them. The Republic might have brought them back into it but its defeat sealed their fate. So they left, following well-beated paths into strange lands, a firm, gay people who blamed nobody for their lot.

It became them to make a proud stand against ‘The Sherriff’ before they set out, for, so to speak , that was where they came in - the prelude to Kinsale and its sequel. It would ill become me not to help them leave behind them some word of what they did. Indeed , I, too, might have failed them but for Maurice Moore. It is fitting that it should be from him the push came to make me write this, for he came to the aid of the townlands when they had few friends. He would like to be remembered with them , and they would like that, too.

For myself there is the further reward that this booklet is a footnote to Liam Mellows’s ‘Notes From Mountjoy Jail….’
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THE PETER BERRY PAPERS……. The Top Secret Memoirs of Ireland’s Most Powerful Civil Servant : Dirty Tricks, Election ‘69/ Spying on a Unionist Politician/ Keeping the (State) Taoiseach informed/ The Garda Fallon Murder/ Advice to Jack Lynch- ‘Fire the pair of them…’/ Vivion De Valera’s advice to O’Malley/ Rumours of a Coup D’Etat/ The Internment Plot, November 1970/ Secret Meeting with William Craig.
From ‘MAGILL’ magazine , June 1980.

” Of the two warrants signed by me , at the request of the Commissioner, one was never enforced after the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs consulted the Taoiseach : it was in connection with the attempted arms importation and it was in respect of a public servant (not a member of Parliament) who was deeply involved. I was no respector of persons and saw no reason for exclusivity but the Taoiseach took another view. This again made me - and the Garda Authorities - have doubts as to whether the Taoiseach was in earnest in directing on April 20th that the matter be fully investigated.

I had been pilloried by ‘Backbencher’ , a gossip columnist in ‘The Irish Times’ , on several occasions in the 1960’s for “tapping” telephones when I was completely innocent…….”
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ON THIS DAY (15th FEB) 91 YEARS AGO (1921)….

IRA Column 1920’s , Ireland.

Paddy Moran and Joseph Rochford are charged with the ‘murder’ of Lieutenant Peter Ashmun Ames at 38 Upper Mount Street , Dublin, on ‘Bloody Sunday’, November 21st, 1920. Joe Rochford was acquitted but Paddy Moran was found guilty and sentenced to be hung. A large number of alibi witnesses had come forward for Moran but three British soldiers identified him as being in Upper Mount St.
Paddy Moran “….was arrested on two occasions in early 1920. While in detention at Arbour Hill Prison, he was identified as being one of a group of men who had killed Lieutenant Ames at 38 Mount Street, Dublin. Moran strongly protested his innocence of any involvement in Bloody Sunday. His alibi was that he was at Mass in Blackrock (over four miles from the scene of the shooting) at the time and seen there by several people including a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police….”
(From here.)

15th FEBRUARY 1921 : UPTON AMBUSH , CORK -

“Let the moon shine out tonight along the valley
Where those men who fought for freedom now are laid
May they rest in piece those men who died for Ireland
And fell in that Upton ambush for Sinn Fein…..”

On the 15th of February 1921 a planned ambush by the I.R.A. of a train carrying British soldiers went wrong resulting in the death of three I.R.A. men and six civilians. The plan was to ambush the train when it stopped at Upton station : the station staff were detained by the I.R.A. as they waited for the train , which held about fifty soldiers of the Essex Regiment , to arrive. The British soldiers were dispersed throughout the train rather than concentrated in the central carriage as the I.R.A. believed. As a result of acting on faulty information, the civilian causalities were high and the British soldiers were in a better position to repel the IRA attackers. The three dead I.R.A. men were Lieutenant John Whelan a native of Liverpool England, Lieutenant Patrick O’Sullivan of Raheen, Upton , and IRA Section Commander Batt Falvey of Ballymurphy, Upton.

CLONMULT MASSACRE TO BE COMMEMORATED….

On the 20th February 1921 , IRA Captain James P. Aherne and Volunteer James Glavin , two members of an IRA ‘Flying Squad’ that was based in Cork, watched as one of their number headed off on a short stroll to a near-by stream to collect water for the IRA Squad : a poacher , an ex-British Army man, was on the far side of the stream laying traps for rabbits when he spotted the man , whom he knew to be an IRA member, and watched as the IRA man filled as many buckets as he could carry and observed as the Volunteer headed to the near-by cottage. The poacher reported the sighting to the local RIC and they , in turn , called-in a Black and Tan murder gang. The cottage was soon surrounded by these armed pro-British thugs.
Twelve I.R.A. Volunteers were killed and another two were executed later :

Captain James Aherne from Cobh County Cork was killed while jumping a fence 200 yards from the house.
Volunteer Jeremiah Aherne, from Midleton, County Cork ,was killed in action.
Volunteer Liam Aherne, from Midleton, County Cork, killed in action.
Volunteer Donal Dennehy, from Midleton, County Cork, killed in action.
Volunteer David Desmond, from Midleton, County Cork, killed in action.
Volunteer Michael Desmond, from Midleton, County Cork, was killed while attempting to fight his way back into the house.
Volunteer James Glavin, from Cobh, County Cork, was killed during the fighting.
Volunteer Michael Hallahan, from Midleton, County Cork, killed in action.
Volunteer Richard Hegarty, from Garryvoe, County Cork, killed in front of the house when attempting to go for aid.
Volunteer John Joe Joyce, from Midleton, County Cork, killed while attempting to re-gain entry to the farm house.
Volunteer Maurice Moore, from Cobh, County Cork, was captured during the Ambush,and was later executed at Cork Military Barracks on April 28th 1921.
Volunteer Joseph Morrissey, from Athlone, County Westmeath, killed during the fighting.
Volunteer Christopher O’Sullivan, from Midleton, County Cork, killed during the fighting.
Volunteer Paddy O’Sullivan, from Cobh, County Cork, was captured and was later executed at Cork Military Barracks, on April 28th 1921.

The Clonmult Martyrs Commemoration Committee will pay tribute to those brave IRA Volunteers on Sunday , 19th February 2012 : those attending are asked to assemble at the Courthouse , Main Street, Midleton , County Cork , at 2.30pm , from where a parade will be held to the Churchyard at Saint John the Baptist Church , where a wreath will be laid and an oration will be delivered by Mary Ward.
ALL WELCOME !
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

DUBLIN RSF EASTER COMMEMORATION ARRANGEMENTS FOR APRIL 2012 :
“Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven’s part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse -
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born….”
(From here.)

EASTER SUNDAY , 8th April 2012 - Assemble at gates of Deansgrange Cemetery at 12.45pm for the march to the Republican Plot.

EASTER MONDAY , 9th April 2012 - Assemble at the Garden of Rememberance , Parnell Square , Dublin City Centre , at 1.45pm for the march to the GPO.
Thanks,
Sharon.

RAFFLE….

The monthly raffle that was held in a friendly hotel today was , as expected, a roaring (!) success , with all available tickets sold-out within the first twenty minutes of our arrival on the premises : Pat , the Manager , and Anne and Tommy , the staff that were on-hand with us (and who tried their best to maintain order lol!) asked me to publish the results on the blog , as they want to display same on their big screen TV’s in the bar and both lounges : Pat and Tommie insisted that I include a pic of myself , as well, but sure I’m far too shy to do that….. !

Anyway , to business : congrats to Derry , ticket number 578 , who won the €200 first prize , having been sold the ticket by our Anto (who was DELIGHTED that he sold it…..!) , as was Mick , who sold the ticket that won the second prize (€100 - ticket number 276) to the winner of same , Ken. A lovely young colleen from Waterford , Shiela , and her friend , Eileen (also from Waterford) , who were in the hotel for a bite to eat (having broken many a heart in Dublin !) won 3rd and 4th prize respectively with ticket numbers 367 and 34 (€40 and €20 - but that wasn’t the real reason the boys were cheering !) and , actually, two of those cheering boys - Tom and Joe - shared “a twenty-spot…” between them , when they won 5th prize with ticket number 711.
Bobby won prize number 6 (€20) , with ticket number 164 , which he bought from the mysterious ‘Mr H’ and , believe it or not , an RSF member from Kells in County Meath (whom we suspect was with Shiela and Eileen or , at least , was trying his best to be!) won the second-last prize of €20 with ticket number 683 and the last prize , €20, was won by Martin with ticket number 425 , and he was sold that ticket by our resident ticket-seller , Gavin.

It was yet again a very busy , active , noisey and financially beneficial event for the Movement , and the ‘Raffle Crew’ are to be praised for the professional manner in which they conduct the raffle , and themselves , each month. They are a credit to the organisation ! And finally - FAO Pat and Tommy : when our resident ticket-seller , Gav, confirms to me that this blog post is on display on your big screen TV’s , I’ll send the pic you asked for…..maybe……. !

….AND REVENUE !

….a quick word here on finances of another sort : the fact that the corrupt politicians in Leinster House and their business buddies in the property and banking sectors have busted this State wide open and surrendered themselves and , by default, the rest of us, to the sharks in Brussels and the IMF : said sharks have ordered their employees in Kildare Street to issue new income-tax forms , a pic of which we publish with this post -

- As those clowns in Leinster House would say : “Be a true Patriot , and fill it out for us….”
Perhaps they , too, should organise a monthly raffle - but that would be too much like hard work for them…..
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.

WANTED…..

“….FOR A SERIES OF LEGAL VIOLATIONS SUCH AS BLACKMAIL,COVERTLY ABOLISHING OR ERODING DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY….”

Greece’s largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the European Union and International Monetary Fund - “Since you are continuing this destructive policy, we warn you that you cannot make us fight against our brothers. We refuse to stand against our parents, our brothers, our children or any citizen who protests and demands a change of policy,” said the union, which represents more than two-thirds of Greek policemen.

“We warn you that as legal representatives of Greek policemen, we will issue arrest warrants for a series of legal violations … such as blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty”, and said one target of its warrants would be the IMF’s top official for Greece, Poul Thomsen.
(More here.)

When the Greek police are finished with the EU and IMF robber-barons , they might like to visit this corrupt State and deal with the useless money-grabbers in the Leinster House institution : only say the word , Mr Policeman , and we’ll have a white-washed wall ready…..
Thanks for reading,
Sharon.